If there’s one thing I love, it’s an unlikeable character. Bonus points if that character is a girl/woman. There’s something so refreshing and freeing about seeing fictional women get to just be kind of sucky people. But there’s a balancing act to getting it right, especially when writing an unlikeable female protagonist is your goal. [...]
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Book Discussion: Does Mental Health Rep Have to Be Positive?
In discussions about diversity in books, mental health rep isn’t often brough up. If it is, it’s only in reference to books about mental health. That’s because mental health is often difficult to incorporate in a way more obvious aspects of diversity aren’t. Oftentimes, if a book is going to address mental health, it is [...]
Second Chances: Why We Give Authors Another Try
Have you ever read a book by an author and disliked it, but considered giving another book of theirs a try? How do you decide whether or not it’s a chance worth taking? What pushes you to give that author a second chance? I’m no stranger to this phenomenon, so this is something I’ve been [...]
Strange Storyteller 